Quotes About Writer

I think every writer doubts themselves, every day. You procrastinate because you're afraid. You're always afraid it's not going to be as good as you want it to be. But, the key is overcoming fear.

While at the university, Eder lived in bachelor's quarters together with his cousin, the well-known writer Israel Zangwill. A Zionist, Zangwill had hosted Theodor Herzl in London;

It's not very often that a writer's words can punch through the paper and throttle the lifeblood out of you, but Tony's words manage to do just that, his experiences are so powerful and emotional and full of fucking heart that it pales everybody else's work into insignificance. Tony O'Neill will be remembered in years to come, when Monica Ali and Zadie Smith are nothing but footnotes." —StraightfromtheFridge.com

the writer: a spy sent into life by the forces of death. His main objective is to get the information across the border, back into death. Then he can be given a mythic personality: 'he spent time among us, betrayed us, and took the material across the border.

The disorder in Yashar's apartment was that comfortable littering and stacking that only another writer can recognize as order - the considered scatter of papers and books a writer builds around himself until it acquires the cozy solidity of a nest.

For years I felt that being respectable meant maintaining a sinister complacency, and the disreputable freedom I sought helped make me a writer.

A further detail: this gringo writer was self-supporting and had no connection to the American embassy or any foreign organization.

Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer.

A writer always wears glasses and never combs his hair. Half the time he feels angry about everything and the other half depressed. He spends most of his life in bars, arguing with other dishevelled, bespectacled writers. He says very 'deep' things. He always has amazing ideas for the plot of his next novel, and hates the one he has just published.

I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books.

I've discovered my vocation. I want to be a writer.

When trying to seduce a woman, a writer says: 'I'm a writer', and scribbles a poem on a napkin. It always works.

Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard.

The writer's role is to menace the public's conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism and he must focus on the issues of his time.

The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speakes he lies.

I had no idea what art was. There was one art class in high school, but it didn't make a big impression on me. Then I went to college and thought I'd become a writer.

All art points to others with whom the writer argues about what is . . . He must have models with which to agree . . . or outright oppose . . . for Nature seems to remain silence.

I liked museums but I wanted to be a dancer, I wanted to go into performing arts, or be a writer.

I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art.

I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by being translated into another language.

The writer's only responsibility is to his art.

The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no use.

Rather than feeling that every moment you've got to exert this enormous control, you can take the attitude that your job as a writer is not to control everything, but to set things in motion.

I attended Art & Design High School, and at one point, you had to write about what you wanted to be when you grew up. I wrote that I wanted to be a writer for 'Mad' magazine.